First translation into Italian from the Latin with commentary and illustrations, by Cesare Cesariano.--Cf. Caption, leaf I. The text was completed and corrected by Mauro Bono and Benedetto Giovio.--Cf. Publishers' note, leaf [CLXXXIIII]

Colophon, leaf CLXXXIII, reads: Qui finisse Lopera præclara de Lucio Vitruuio Pollione De architectura traducta de latino ĩ uulgare: historiata e cõmentata a le spese e instantia del magnifico. D. Augustino Gallo citadino comense e regio referendario in epsa citate: e del nobile. D. Aluisio da Pirouano patricio milanese: emendata e castigata cum sũmo studio e diligẽtia excepto alchune poche cosse quale sono poste ne la infrascripta tabula de li errori li quali non se hano possuto fugire per lãgustia dil tẽpo: ..

Imprint from conclusion of colophon

Signatures: [pi]⁸A-Z⁸. Ni signed Mi, Piii signed Oiii

Leaves LXII-LXIV misnumbered LXIII, XLVIII, LIIII

Printer's mark on t.p. and at end; the artist's monogram appears on a woodcut dated 15l9, leaf CLXVI; historiated, foliated initials cut white on black as are some other blocks. Woodcuts total 119 with one repetition. Cesariano has provided ill. of gothic architecture, notably of the Milan cathedral, 3 full page ill. on leaves XIIII and XV

Vitruvius text is surrounded by the commentary

Includes index, and errata [errori, mispelled frrori], leaf [CLXXXIV]

Fowler

Mortimer, R. Italian 16th cent.

2000 anni di Vitruvio

Krinsky, C.H. Cesare Cesariano

Catalogo ragionato dei libri d'arte e d'antichità posseduti dal conte Cicognara, 698

[8], CLXXXIII, [1] leaves : 43 cm (fol.)

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